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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2020 8:38:11 GMT
I probably said this last year but man, working night shift when daylight savings falls back sucks.
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Post by Nth on Nov 1, 2020 15:59:34 GMT
I probably said this last year but man, working night shift when daylight savings falls back sucks. Yeah, I was lucky I didn't get called in last night. On the time change overs, the night crew and day crew have to work an extra half an hour to compensate for it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2020 11:01:14 GMT
Just going to quietly reiterate that I hate living in this state sometimes and leave it at that.
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Post by Nth on Nov 4, 2020 13:07:16 GMT
Came home from work, turned on PC and it starts to boot then turns off, then on, then off over and over. Guessing the power supply has finally died.
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Post by kokushishin on Nov 10, 2020 6:27:57 GMT
I had been meaning to switch it out anyway but the "main" printer pretty much died out this afternoon. And now apparently the toaster.
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Post by Nth on Nov 10, 2020 8:26:32 GMT
Got my pc running again, at least temporarily. Backing up stuff to externals and making sure steam game saves are backed up on the cloud. Really do think the cold weather was affecting it. It’s warm again and now it’s running again. Going to try and stretch it out as long as I can before I have a professional look at it. Already been browsing a computer building site to piece together my next PC, but hoping to get some more pays under my belt. Won’t be getting a PS5 until February or March so if I have to wait for spring for a new PC the PS5 will keep me company.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2020 19:12:51 GMT
I'm realizing belatedly that I seem to have accidentally left my DS behind during the move somehow. I mean, I distinctly remember packing it and could swear I've seen it at our new place since then, and yet it isn't here. I mean, it wasn't seeing much use these days but it was still mine and it's annoying to have lost it. Nevermind, finally found it. That move was beyond messy and we're still trying to get unpacked two months later because of my increasingly ridiculous work schedule.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2020 7:50:37 GMT
I just got hit by another beer run. I don't know why convenience stores like to stack their extra packs in front of the door because that only invites theft.
Also, this is coming from a non-drinker but like, what even is the appeal of beer anyway?
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Post by kokushishin on Nov 15, 2020 5:06:39 GMT
I wouldn't exactly call myself straight edge but my last experience drinking pretty much put me in a similar mindset.
Of course with my luck I run into a lot that seem to drink, and I already had one "I like you but you're pretty buzzed so good night"
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Post by Nth on Nov 15, 2020 21:09:16 GMT
First World problem: Realizing I am going to need to upgrade my 8 year old tv to something with 4k, 120 refresh and HDMI 2.1 ports for when I get a PS5.
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Post by faulknasty on Nov 15, 2020 21:15:14 GMT
First World problem: Realizing I am going to need to upgrade my 8 year old tv to something with 4k, 120 refresh and HDMI 2.1 ports for when I get a PS5. Yeah this me just going maybe in like 5 years I can get one of these fancy tvs
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2020 1:11:36 GMT
Makes me grateful to have given up on modern gaming if we're at the point where we have to upgrade our TVs to keep up with the new systems now.
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Post by kokushishin on Nov 21, 2020 20:21:32 GMT
Getting more than a bit tired of the "you're not lying but you are glossing over some important details." But that wouldn't be the only thing that needs to change so I guess I shouldn't think about it too much.
Others though, I'm not sure where all this negativity is coming from.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2020 15:17:10 GMT
Please excuse my longwindedness of late. I've been trying to be more open. I was pretty miserable in the early '10s because I didn't have anywhere to talk about things I was going through at the time, even though I was active in this community. I feel closer to y'all than I did then and I don't want to go through that again.
Plus the anxiety makes me worry I'm being annoying sometimes.
Anyway, here goes. A while back, I said that there was more to the story with the house that I moved out of a few months ago. I think enough time has passed for me to go into what I meant by that.
Basically, that was the house where I grew up.
It's a 30-year story but I'll abridge it as best I can. Basically, my parents bought the place in 1990 after being screwed out of their previous home (sensing a pattern). They divorced in 1995 and mom and I moved into an apartment while dad kept the house.
In 2005, he was planning to move out of state and remarry around the same time that we were about to see an increase in our rent. We could own the house for what they were asking so we decided to take over the payments, getting refinanced with a fixed rate loan.
I want to repeat the "fixed rate" part because our mortgage company turned out to be crooked and doubled our payments the next year. This was compounded by us both losing our jobs soon after. They told us they would work with us if we could find new jobs, which we did, at which point payments went up again to triple the original rate.
Fun fact, this company is now legally barred from operating in the United States.
Just as we were about to be foreclosed upon, somebody referred mom to a guy that would buy the place and let us continue to live there as renters. So, we sold it to him, which felt like having lost the house once before now. He also turned out to not be much of a landlord and, for too many reasons to really go into in an abridged story, the house ended up falling apart over the last few years, which was like losing it a second time.
The third and final loss came earlier this year when our now-former landlord needed to get out from under the place for (understandable) personal reasons and sold to this "quick sale" guy on TV. Our experience with him was a series of headaches and I don't want to get into everything that happened. Suffice to say, I'm hoping to put my experience with him behind me along with everything else that happened.
Fortunately, we at least could afford to move, even though it took everything we had and then some. We didn't like that we weren't leaving on our own terms, but we've also needed out of that place for years. So, mixed blessing.
The actual move itself ended up bringing a number of its own headaches, though, and left me depressed afterwards. Some of it was the symbolic proof that my youth is truly gone and some of it was just me being hard on myself over a lot of things, mostly about wishing things could have gone differently.
I'm trying to make my peace with it, though. I know there's nothing left for us there now, and the way the new owner is renovating it means there's nothing left OF us there either.
Still, our new place is nice and I'm trying to make the best of our next chapter.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2020 8:09:33 GMT
We have signs in our restrooms asking people to flush when they're done. Despite that, I just had a man use the restroom without flushing, then a woman did likewise a few minutes later.
Some things transcend gender.
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